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On Wed, Jan 11, 2012 at 8:50 AM, Michael Peters <mp@mpeters.de> wrote: > 1. Recently I sabotaged myself by going away to get some food and > socializing with friends _before_ everything was set up, and then I had > too > little time to set up in a relaxed way (I won't do that again) > > 2. by wanting to do too many too complicated things. The complex setup > that > I can handle at home where I have enough space, enough light, and no time > pressure is clearly too demanding for me live when there is only a > crammed > corner on a dark stage full of cables, and I only have 20 minutes left to > setup. Horror. The last time it was like that, I just about got > everything > to work but I felt tense inside. It sometimes seems I only have 70% of my > usual capacities available to me on stage. > > 3. Some parts of my complex setup that _always_ used to work at home will > inevitably fail for mysterious reasons when on stage. I sabotage myself > if I > rely too much on everything to work 100%, including myself > > -Michael 4. Using the computer for too many other tasks. When you have a computer it is tempting to use it for other purposes than being the central brain of your music performance rig. I made this mistake at the latest International Live Looping Festival in Santa Cruz CA. I had been taking lots of photos and also helping friends to move photo files between cameras and USB sticks. Somehow this interfered with the system, OS X, and when I should start my concert at the festival the damn laptop never booted! While everyone thought that I was sitting by the stage side properly waiting for my slot to enter into the spotlight the truth was that I was waiting in chock for the Macbook Pro to repair itself. I did a "boot in save mode" by holding down the shift key while pressing the power button and in save-mode I opened the Disc Utility and set it up to "repair file permissions". The process was initiated and estimated to take 11 minutes. My GO time was due in 12 minutes. The box was fixed and rebooted exactly at the moment my slot was announced. Phew... it was really nice to start playing after that . Didn't "sabotage the gig" but it could have done so just as well. Greetings from Sweden Per Boysen www.perboysen.com http://www.youtube.com/perboysen